Editing ISNI in WinIBW Client
You can enhance an ISNI in WinIBW Client (as well as in the Web Portal) by supplying additional information to the record: name variants, dates, language, gender, or nationality, related people or organizations, titles of works created by the person, and an external information from the outside sources. Editing a record may involve various actions from simply adding a note to linking related records. You can also upgrade record status from "provisional" to "assigned."
How to Add Name Variant(s)
ISNI is not an authority file and is not seeking to create a unique access point for each identity.
Main access points from each data source are listed in a 7XX field, in no particular order. Variant access points are listed in a 4XX field.
In WinIBW variant access points are listed first, followed by main access points.
The data for organisations is displayed in the same style as personal names. In the example below the variant access points for the musical group “The Smiths” are listed first in the 410 fields.
The affiliations of the identity “Gerrard Winstanley” include Christopher Hill and Leonard Hamilton who have both edited selections of his writings.
How to Add Works
All titles are collated in the 910 field. The titles are listed in no particular order but similar titles are normally grouped together.
Example:
The record for the identity “Harman, Chris” includes the following titles in the 910 field:
910 ##$a@How marxism works$2VIAF$2NLA
910 ##$a@How marxism works$2VIAF$2LC
910 ##$a@How marxism works$2VIAF$2DNB
910 ##$a@Class struggles in Eastern Europe, 1945-83$2VIAF$2NLA
910 ##$a@Class struggles in Eastern Europe, 1945-83$2VIAF$2BIBSYS
910 ##$a@Class struggles in Eastern Europe, 1945-83$2VIAF$2LC
910 ##$a@Class struggles in Eastern Europe, 1945-83$2VIAF$2BNF
910 ##$a@Zombie capitalism :$bglobal crisis and the relevance of Marx$2VIAF$2NLA
910 ##$a@Zombie capitalism :$bglobal crisis and the relevance of Marx$2VIAF$2LC
910 ##$aA @people's history of the world$2VIAF$2NLA
910 ##$aA @people's history of the world$2VIAF$2BIBSYS
910 ##$aA @people's history of the world$2VIAF$2LC
How to Add Related Personal Names or Affiliations
Personal name affiliations are listed in the 950 field and can include pseudonyms, co-authors, biographers and editors/compilers.
Example:
The data for organisations is displayed in the same style as personal names. In the above example the variant access points for the musical group “The Smiths” are listed first in the 410 fields.
The affiliations of the identity “Gerrard Winstanley” include Christopher Hill and Leonard Hamilton who have both edited selections of his writings.
950 ##$aHill, Christopher$d1912-2003$2VIAF$2NLA
950 ##$aHill, Christopher$d1912-2003$2VIAF$2BNF
950 ##$aHill, Christopher$d1912-2003$2VIAF$2LC
950 ##$aHamilton, Leonard$2VIAF$2NLA
950 ##$aHamilton, Leonard$2VIAF$2BIBSYS
950 ##$aHamilton, Leonard$2VIAF$2LC
Organisational affiliations are listed in the 951 field and can include group memberships and earlier or later names.
Example:
The identity “Joe Strummer” was a member of numerous musical groups, including “The Clash” and the “101‘Ers”. The record for this identity includes the following 951 fields:
951 2#$aClash$eAffiliation$tsee also from$2VIAF$2DNB
951 ##$aClash (musikkgruppe)$2VIAF$2BIBSYS
951 ##$5z$a101'Ers$p1974-1976$tsee also from$2VIAF$2BNF
951 ##$5z$aThe Clash (Groupe de rock)$cGroupe de rock$p1976-$tsee also from$2VIAF$2BNF
How to Link Records in WinIBW
Manually adding linking fields creates “live” links between records on both WinIBW and the public database.
Example:
The musician J.G. Thirlwell is a member of a number of different musical groups – Foetus Inc; Foetus Symphony Orchestra; Wiseblood; Foetus Interruptus and Foetus (Musical group).
In the following record on WinIBW “live” links have been added.
The manually added fields contain hyperlinks in the $9 subfield to the linked record. The additional linking fields without hyperlinks are from ISNI data sources and do not provide “live” links on WinIBW or the public database.
How to upgrade ISNI record to assigned status in WinIBW
Although all records contain an ISNI, not every ISNI will have a status of “assigned”. The status can be found in the 003 $a subfield.
Examples
003 $00000000073818437$12011-10-13 17:12:31$aassigned$c39
003 $00000000055490490$aprovisional$bno match initial database$c30
003 $00000000114523898$12012-05-21 14:50:02$asuspect$c39
- Find the record to be upgraded.
- Click on the Update button.
- In field 003, delete '$aprovisional$bno match initial database'
- Insert '$aassigned'
- Leave subfield $c in the record.
- Click on the Enter button.
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